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Subject: RFC 2142
From: Jason L Tibbitts III <tibbs @ hpc . uh . edu>
Date: 10 Jul 1997 10:32:03 -0500
To: majordomo-workers @ greatcircle . com

Has anyone seen this?  It says the following:

   For a mailing list whose submission mailbox name is:

      <LIST@DOMAIN>

   there MUST be the administrative mailbox name:

      <LIST-REQUEST@DOMAIN>

   Distribution List management software, such as MajorDomo and
   Listserv, also have a single mailbox name associated with the
   software on that system -- usually the name of the software -- rather
   than a particular list on that system.  Use of such mailbox names
   requires participants to know the type of list software employed at
   the site.  This is problematic.  Consequently:

      LIST-SPECIFIC (-REQUEST) MAILBOX NAMES ARE REQUIRED,
      INDEPENDENT OF THE AVAILABILITY OF GENERIC LIST SOFTWARE
      MAILBOX NAMES.

I guess that instead of requiring the users to know the single mailbox
name, they require them to know a priori the command syntax.  Oh, well.

 - J< (who doesn't use -request aliases)

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